Why carry babies?

Carrying babies is in the nature of human beings. Newborns and babies have been carried by their parents for centuries, they are baby carriers. Whether in Baby Wrap or a Baby Carrier:

Carrying babies makes you happy!

Babywearing promotes the development of the baby and strengthens the important bond between parents and their child. In the following, you will learn everything worth knowing about babywearing. We take a look at the background as well as the medical and psychological aspects of babywearing. In addition, we will show you the many advantages of carrying your baby in everyday life. Last but not least, we shed light on the topic of babywearing from the perspective of doctors and midwives.

Why is babywearing so important?

HUMAN BABIES ARE NATURALLY CARRIERS AND BENEFIT FROM BEING CARRIED BY THEIR PARENTS.

When your baby comes into the world, he or she is helpless at first. It is dependent on its mother's closeness and care and is automatically taken in her arms and carried. Babies are not yet able to perceive their environment: a baby can see sharply for just 20-30 cm - after that everything becomes blurred. This is just enough for your little treasure to recognize the face of the person who is holding it. Exactly this optimal distance exists when carrying a baby correctly in a Baby Carrier or baby sling. With your body contact, your child remembers the time in your belly. Your smell, your voice, your heartbeat - everything he knows. Since the beginning of his life. Your baby becomes calm, cries less and immediately feels safe and secure.

Good reasons to carry your baby:

• bonding
• carried babies cry up to 51% less
• Promotes psychological development
• gives parents freedom and flexibility
• promotes healthy hip development
• relieves the back of the wearer

What are the benefits of carrying my baby?

There are also good reasons for you to carry your baby! After the birth of your child, many things are new. You will quickly notice that you are happier when your child is with you. Your body releases happiness hormones. Nature intended it that way. How nice if you still have both hands free. Whether it's cooking, running errands, or simply relaxing in peace and enjoying the magic of motherhood.

Out of the postpartum

Once you've gotten used to your daily routine with a new earthling, the desire to get back to life often comes up. Whether it's going for a walk, strolling around town or just meeting up with friends. You do very easily with a carried child. He is close to your body, knows he is safe and can get to know the environment and the new world together with you - from a safe distance. If it gets too much for him, your little treasure can snuggle up again, close his little eyes, and let yourself be rocked by your heartbeat and your movements into the land of dreams.

Carrying your baby means being flexible in everyday life.

Hands free. Mom is there for the baby and can still take care of everyday tasks, possibly siblings, dog or herself, while the baby is in the Baby Carrier sleeps. Time flexibility for the daily routine: nap can also be taken in the Baby Carrier can be continued. Local flexibility: The baby can be taken anywhere. Even in places where a stroller is difficult to get to, with a Baby Carrier from KOKADI everything can be reached. Breastfeeding in the Baby Carrier: It can not be easier and more discreet in public.

Babywearing is healthy.

Healthy hip development in the Baby Carrier.

Newborns are born with relatively soft bones that consist mainly of cartilage. The baby's hips are also not yet fully developed. When the baby lies on its back or is lifted, it reflexively bends its legs. The head of the femur thereby assumes the anatomically optimal position in the acetabulum, which serves healthy hip development. This is the so-called tuck-and-spread position, the ergonomically correct carrying position in which the knees are bent at belly button level. When tying the baby sling and adjusting the bar of a Baby Carrier the fabric or the bar should therefore reach to the back of the baby's knee to support the thigh up to the knee joint and to achieve a stable position of the hip joint. Correct carrying in the squat-spread position has a preventive and therapeutic effect on malformations of the hip (cf. E.Fettweis, 2004).

Healthy back.

The spine is rounded at the beginning. The development towards the typical S-shape of the spine as in an adult takes place in the course of the first year of life. With the correct, firm tying of a baby sling or a Baby Carrier the child's back is well supported vertebra by vertebra in the upright position. Carrying in the vertical position also has the advantage that the infant's head with its still soft bones is supported by the correct tying technique or head support of the Baby Carrier This helps to prevent deformation of the back of the head due to positioning. Proper carrying strengthens the back muscles of the person carrying the baby in parallel with the baby's weight gain. With an ergonomic Baby Carrier carrying system relieves the strain on the back and prevents back problems. Thus Baby Carriers also healthy for mom and dad.

Carry properly!

The baby's gaze should be turned toward the person carrying him. If, on the other hand, the baby's gaze is directed forward, its little legs are not supported and the hip joints get into an extended position, which can cause the head of the femur to deform the edges of the socket (hip dysplasia) or even leave it (hip luxation). The round back is then also not supported, but pushed into a hollow back. In addition, the baby cannot check "threatening" situations by making quick eye contact with you. Even if it gets tired, it can find it difficult to escape the many stimuli. The child should be carried at "head kissing height". In doing so, it snuggles up to the person carrying it. It must not sink in or tip to the side. For greater comfort, you can alternate between carrying the child on your chest, back or even on your hip.

KOKADI Baby Carriers & Baby Wraps: Recommended by midwives and doctors.

KOKADI Baby carriers combine science, craftsmanship and love. All baby carriers from KOKADI and their functionality, are designed for the healthy development of the baby.

"For the very special time in which the development of the mother-child bond begins, facilitates KOKADI with the diverse ergonomic carrying aids the Elterndasein. They not only bring the familiar heartbeat and scent of mom, but make life easier for mom during the postpartum period and beyond."

Kiriaki avramidou
Midwife

"KOKADI connects, not only parents and children, but also science and love. The ergonomic stretchers from KOKADI meet the physical and emotional needs of the little wearer and delight with the quality of the fabrics and their exceptionally fresh colors!"

Desiree Ratay
Holistic doctor in the pediatric practice
www.doktormami.de

Why KOKADI?

KOKADI is more than a product. KOKADI is an attitude to life.

⋆｡°✩ Optimum ergonomics and maximum safety during Baby Carriers.

KOKADI Baby Carriers are ergonomically designed and grow with the baby. To ensure that the baby can assume the ideal squat-splay position and always be supported in a way that suits his body size and weight, we offer our stretchers in three sizes (Babysize, Toddler and XL) and with different weights per unit area (from 170 g/m² - 450 g/m²). The head support stabilizes and protects the baby's head. A three-point buckle is used on the hip belt for safety. So parents can wear relaxed and with the best conscience.

⋆｡°✩ Beautiful designs and the best organic materials.

We set ourselves no limits when it comes to product design, whether visual or tactile. Prerequisite: The materials used come from organically controlled cultivation and fair production. Depending on what a product should be able to do, there are KOKADIs made of robust organic cotton, silky viscose from bamboo cellulose, cuddly modal from beech wood, warming mohair, soft, air-permeable Tencel, tear-resistant hemp, breathable linen and much more. The varying weaves, motifs and stylish colors make for distinctive designs in organic quality and make parents' hearts beat faster.

⋆｡°✩ Variety and uniqueness.

Typical for KOKADI products: They are pleasantly cuddly and unmistakably colorful and stylish. All products and designs are created in the head office in Germany and hand sewn in Europe. Thereby each KOKADIClassic or Limited, is lovingly handmade and therefore unique.

⋆｡°✩ Parents and child.

The carrying products from KOKADI lovingly connect parents with their baby. The baby can be with them everywhere and feels safe and secure due to the proximity to the caregiver. In the process, the baby is provided with important bonding experiences and its psychological development is promoted. KOKADI Moms and dads discover the world together with their baby - right from the start!

⋆｡°✩ Hype & attitude to life.

#oncekokadialwayskokadi, #wirkennenunsausdemkokadifanclub #kokadiverbind Wer mit KOKADI wears, not infrequently becomes a fan. KOKADI Specific terms like "DISO" (desperately in search of) or "Atta" (anonymous sling addict), tattooed mamas with KOKADI-motifs and the collecting of coveted designs are examples of the KOKADI hype. KOKADI is more than a product. KOKADI is an attitude to life that connects.

All the advantages of Baby Wear at a glance.

• Healthy development of the child's hip joint through physiological squat-splay posture.
• Helps prophylactically and therapeutically with hip dysplasia.
• Helps prophylactically and therapeutically with position-related deformation of the head.
• Helps with colic, as an abdominal massage of the child. Babies sometimes suffer from flatulence. Through the warmth of the mother and the gentle pressure on the abdomen by the mummy's belly, the baby relaxes, the intestines get going and the abdominal pain disappears due to outgoing air.
• Burping: Letting the baby burp after the last meal is not necessary. The upright position and the gentle massage by the mommy's belly helps to expel any swallowed air.
• Getting healthy after illness / faster recovery. According to studies, people with a lot of physical contact recover faster.
• Heat exchange in cold weather. In winter, baby and mom warm each other and protect each other from hypothermia.
• Skin-to-skin carrying for fever: the closeness when carrying, especially with direct skin contact of mom and baby promotes recovery. Sweating creates evaporative cooling, which cools the baby.
• Training the sense of balance through constant and ever-changing movements of the mother or father.
• According to studies, children with strong physical contact are less likely to contract serious infections.
• Calmer sleep.
• Higher release of growth hormones due to a lot of touch and physical contact.
• Better maturation of the brain through much touch and physical contact.
• Carried babies cry 51% less.
• More secure attachment to caregiver: 83% instead of only 38% for non-wearing babies.
• Babies experience themselves as a natural member of the family through the attention and involvement in all everyday situations.
• Babies feel loved: the mother can recognize the child's condition very quickly due to the close contact. Does the baby have different movements, body tension, breathing rate, sounds? Babies can safely do without the last resort, loud crying, and save these resources, because the mother recognizes very early signs and a more relaxed and intuitive communication develops.
• Babies feel seen: The signals of hunger are usually recognized in the early stages of hunger. The baby is in on the action and is not left alone in another room.
• Sensory development of the child is promoted more strongly: The baby is everywhere in everyday life and gets many different impressions. From sounds, smells but also the speech melody of the environment.
• Better social bonding of the child.
• The close skin contact promotes the happiness hormone oxytocin, which also boosts the mother's milk production. In addition, the higher oxytocin content increases the mother's own sense of well-being, which also strengthens the bond with her own child.